Performance and emission characteristics of diesel engine running on blended palm oil

Rapid increasing of industrialization and motorization has led arising of petroleum and energy demand. This pursue a new energy blends to cater the depletion of fossil fuel and the environmental degradation condition. Malaysia is blessed, which has suitable climate to plant alternative fuel (palm oi...

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Main Authors: Muhamad Iqbal Ahmad, Z.A. Zainal, Mazlan Mohamed, Abdullah Mohd Mustafa Al Bakri, M.S Salim
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Published: Trans-Tech Publication 2013
Online Access:http://discol.umk.edu.my/id/eprint/7867/
http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.795.164
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spelling my.umk.eprints.78672022-05-23T10:23:37Z http://discol.umk.edu.my/id/eprint/7867/ Performance and emission characteristics of diesel engine running on blended palm oil Muhamad Iqbal Ahmad Z.A. Zainal Mazlan Mohamed Abdullah Mohd Mustafa Al Bakri M.S Salim Rapid increasing of industrialization and motorization has led arising of petroleum and energy demand. This pursue a new energy blends to cater the depletion of fossil fuel and the environmental degradation condition. Malaysia is blessed, which has suitable climate to plant alternative fuel (palm oil) and become one of the largest exporters to the world. Palm oil in its refined form as cooking oil has high energy content which can be adopted as an alternative to the petroleum based fuel. This paper evaluates the performance and emission characteristics of refined palm oil (RPO) as a fuel to the diesel engine. Palm oil and its blends composition with 20%, 40%, 60% as well as pure palm oil (100%) and diesel were tested separately under various engine loads. Five series of tests data on each type of fuel were analyzed and compared. Moreover, by increasing the percentage of RPO in blends would lead a character of higher percentage in density and viscosity. Studied revealed that the small percentage of RPO composition promises a good thermal efficiency together with the emission released. Trans-Tech Publication 2013-09 Non-Indexed Article NonPeerReviewed Muhamad Iqbal Ahmad and Z.A. Zainal and Mazlan Mohamed and Abdullah Mohd Mustafa Al Bakri and M.S Salim (2013) Performance and emission characteristics of diesel engine running on blended palm oil. Advanced Materials Research, 795. pp. 164-169. ISSN 1662-8985 http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.795.164 doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.795.164 doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.795.164
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description Rapid increasing of industrialization and motorization has led arising of petroleum and energy demand. This pursue a new energy blends to cater the depletion of fossil fuel and the environmental degradation condition. Malaysia is blessed, which has suitable climate to plant alternative fuel (palm oil) and become one of the largest exporters to the world. Palm oil in its refined form as cooking oil has high energy content which can be adopted as an alternative to the petroleum based fuel. This paper evaluates the performance and emission characteristics of refined palm oil (RPO) as a fuel to the diesel engine. Palm oil and its blends composition with 20%, 40%, 60% as well as pure palm oil (100%) and diesel were tested separately under various engine loads. Five series of tests data on each type of fuel were analyzed and compared. Moreover, by increasing the percentage of RPO in blends would lead a character of higher percentage in density and viscosity. Studied revealed that the small percentage of RPO composition promises a good thermal efficiency together with the emission released.
format Non-Indexed Article
author Muhamad Iqbal Ahmad
Z.A. Zainal
Mazlan Mohamed
Abdullah Mohd Mustafa Al Bakri
M.S Salim
spellingShingle Muhamad Iqbal Ahmad
Z.A. Zainal
Mazlan Mohamed
Abdullah Mohd Mustafa Al Bakri
M.S Salim
Performance and emission characteristics of diesel engine running on blended palm oil
author_facet Muhamad Iqbal Ahmad
Z.A. Zainal
Mazlan Mohamed
Abdullah Mohd Mustafa Al Bakri
M.S Salim
author_sort Muhamad Iqbal Ahmad
title Performance and emission characteristics of diesel engine running on blended palm oil
title_short Performance and emission characteristics of diesel engine running on blended palm oil
title_full Performance and emission characteristics of diesel engine running on blended palm oil
title_fullStr Performance and emission characteristics of diesel engine running on blended palm oil
title_full_unstemmed Performance and emission characteristics of diesel engine running on blended palm oil
title_sort performance and emission characteristics of diesel engine running on blended palm oil
publisher Trans-Tech Publication
publishDate 2013
url http://discol.umk.edu.my/id/eprint/7867/
http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.795.164
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